Gestalt Quiz

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. The founder of Gestalt therapy is:
a. Carl Rogers.
b. Carl Whitaker.
c. Albert Ellis.
d. William Glasser.
e. none of the above
____ 2. Which of the following is not a key concept of Gestalt therapy?
a. acceptance of personal responsibility
b. intellectual understanding of one's problems
c. awareness
d. unfinished business
e. Dealing with the impasse
____ 3. Gestalt-therapy techniques are designed to help the client:
a. Expand awareness of the here-and-now.
b. intensify feelings and experiencing.
c. make a value judgment of his or her behavior.
d. free himself or herself of specific behavioral symptoms.
e. both (a) and (b)
____ 4. A Gestalt technique that is most useful when a person attempts to deny an aspect of his
or her personality (such as tenderness) is:
a. making the rounds.
b. reversal technique.
c. the rehearsal experiment.
d. playing the projection.
____ 5. The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:
a. attaining awareness, and with it greater choice.
b. to understand why we feel as we do.
c. to uncover repressed material.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
____ 6. A limitation of Gestalt therapy is that:
a. it does not specify techniques.
b. it is not grounded in solid theory.
c. it discounts cognitive factors in therapy.
d. it dwells too much on the past.
e. both (b) and (c)

____ 7. According to Gestalt theory, all of the following are true about contact except:
a. Contact is necessary for change and growth to occur.
b. one does not lose one's sense of individuality as a result of good contact.
c. withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis.
d. Contact is made by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving.
e. we often tend to resist contact with others.
____ 8. Which of the following is not true about Fritz Perls?
a. He developed Gestalt therapy.
b. During his childhood, he was a model student.
c. He was trained in psychoanalysis.
d. He gave workshops and seminars at the Esalen Institute.
e. He aroused various reactions in the people he met.
____ 9. Which of the following aspects of a client's use of language would a Gestalt
therapist not focus on?
a. "it" talk
b. "you" talk
c. questions
d. language that denies power
e. semantics
____ 10. The process of distraction, or fleeting awareness, that makes it difficult to
maintain sustained contact is the definition of:
a. introjection.
b. projection.
c. retroflection.
d. confluence.
e. deflection.
____ 11. The process of turning back to ourselves what we would like to do to someone
else is the definition of:
a. introjection.
b. projection.
c. retroflection.
d. confluence.
____ 12. The process of the blurring of awareness of differentiation between the self
and the environment is the definition of:
a. introjection.
b. projection.
c. retroflection.
d. confluence.

____ 13. What is a limitation (or limitations) of Gestalt therapy as it is applied to

working with culturally diverse populations?
a. Clients who have been culturally conditioned to be emotionally reserved might not see
value in experiential techniques.
b. Clients may be "put off" by a focus on catharsis.
c. Clients may believe that to show one's vulnerability is to be weak.
d. all of the above
True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
Decide if each of the following statements is "more true" or "more false" from the perspective of
Gestalt therapy.
____ 14.
The Gestalt therapist typically uses diagnosis and interpretation as a basic part
of the therapeutic process.
____ 15.
One of the functions of the Gestalt therapist is to pay attention to the client's
body language.
____

16.

Therapy is based upon the successful resolution of the transference relationship.

____

17.

Both contact and withdrawal are necessary and important to healthy functioning.

____ 18.
The Gestalt approach to dream work consists of the therapist interpreting the
meaning of the symbols in the dream.
____

19.

Gestalt therapy focuses on the cognitive aspects of therapy.

____

20.

Retroflection involves doing to others what we would like them to do to us.